Online Surveys

If you are conducting interviews or survey in your qualitative research, you may want to consider using the many (and free) survey tools available. I am familiar with surveymonkey, which is simple to use and includes analytic tools, but if you have the free version, you are limited to ten questions. If you search google for "free online surveys" there are many more to explore! Please let me know if you have found any that are useful in qualitative research.

Hypertext Dissertations

In response to Mitsu's post about needing to see some dissertations that use hypertext. I searched the web and found some examples you all might be interested in exploring. Angel also did her Master's project in this manner, so you may be able to ask her to share her insights.

http://www.sympoiesis.net/?q=onlinediss#
(these are from the 90s, some links are broken, but provide are basic examples)

http://www.nutball.com/dissertation/mains/Narra1.html
(individual research)

Welcome Winter 09 Students... Take two!

I am so glad to have you all in class for the second half of the quarter. Please look over the website at your leisure and let me know if there is anything that looks particularly appealing to you or that perhaps you know well enough to skip. My goal for this class is that it be helpful and pertinent to you and your research. In addition, please take this short survey...

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Sw6Z5CiQdars1l14y_2fY2ww_3d_3d

Concept Map Tools

In class today, I mentioned some concept map tools that I think may be helpful to qualitative research. I have tried Vue, which is from Tufts University and pretty simple to use (and free). Amy had a link to mindmeister on her blog, which I have not used, but which looks interesting because it is web-based (so, no downloading) and can be shared with other users. Also, Lucy asked about using NetDraw, which I have not looked into yet, but it is also a concept mapping tool for mapping and counting nodes and such in a social networking environment. I think I may be adding these as part of the class in the future.